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Far-right party named ‘TRUMP’ launches in Belgium

Donald Trump may sometimes think of himself as the “president of Europe” due to his huge influence over policy in Brussels, but even he wouldn’t have expected to see himself appear on ballots in the city.

But a far-right Belgian francophone party, which is named after the U.S. president via a roundabout acronym, was recently launched by a former chairman of the Belgian National Front, local outlet BRUZZ reported Monday.

 “Donald Trump is the ultimate symbol of populism. He immediately embodies what we stand for,” Salvatore Nicotra, TRUMP’s founder, told the website.

TRUMP — which stands for “Tous Réunis pour l’Union des Mouvements Populistes” (All United for the Union of Populist Movements) — is a successor to far-right Wallonian parties Chez Nous and the Belgian National Front (NF).

Unlike Flanders’ Vlaams Belang, Belgium’s largest far-right party, TRUMP does not advocate separatism, Nicotra noted, and aims to run both at the federal level and in the 2029 European Parliament election.

“We are a right-wing populist party with a social slant,” he said.

Nicotra, who served as a municipal councilor in the Saint-Gilles district of Brussels from 1994 to 2000, has not ruled out running in the Belgian capital or in municipal elections as well.

Other founders, all former members of the NF, include Emanuele Licari, a former Vlaams Belang member who was dropped from its list after the party said he had been openly glorifying fascism.

The party’s official launch event will take place on Nov. 30.

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